For Those Pets that REALLY Like Water

[MNeedham73]

This is just bizarre. :)

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[ethics]

Funny you just mentioned this. JUST gave Stretch his first washing. MY left hand is a mess and in Iodine. :(

[MNeedham73]

Dude, save your hands and just pick up something like this for cats. (http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2750962)

[ethics]

quick cleaning and freshening in-between baths.

Still won't help!

[MNeedham73]

I've only EVER bathed my cats if there was a good reason for it (got into something nasty, etc.). Otherwise, they take care of themselves quite well.

I do brush them to help with shedding, but that's about it.

They're not dogs, ya know. :)

[Steve]

Flea baths. It took our cat nearly 2 years to forget and forgive me for giving her about a dozen flea baths. To this day, she doesn't really like me to hold her :)

[MNeedham73]

I have Frontline in a spray bottle for that :)

[Steve]

We never gave her anything, before then. She's always been strictly an indoor kitty; to this day, we have no idea where the fleas came from.

[MNeedham73]

Same thing happened here a couple of years back. All 5 animals got fleas somehow. First and only time it ever happened.

[Allene]

Animals can be quite funny! I've never seen anything like this before, but I had a cat years ago who enjoyed being vacuumed. I think he may have had fleas, and the vacuum sucked them off him. Our current cat is scared of that machine, but there aren't any fleas around here. It's too dry. Instead, we have ticks, but the cat never goes outside, and the dog gets treated with Frontline on a regular basis. I never give cats a bath. It's just too traumatic.

[MNeedham73]

I never give cats a bath. It's just too traumatic.

Not to mention, too bloody. Ask Leon ;)

[Steve]

Plus, I hate the way their fur sticks to my tongue!

Apologies to Steve Martin

[Coot]

It'd probably make a mess out of your lucky blue suit as well. :haha:

[Allene]

Not to mention, too bloody. Ask Leon ;)

Fer sure!:eek:

[Copzilla]

Animals can be quite funny! I've never seen anything like this before, but I had a cat years ago who enjoyed being vacuumed. I think he may have had fleas, and the vacuum sucked them off him. Our current cat is scared of that machine, but there aren't any fleas around here. It's too dry. Instead, we have ticks, but the cat never goes outside, and the dog gets treated with Frontline on a regular basis. I never give cats a bath. It's just too traumatic.
Yeah, that's what we did with our cat, Frontline and brush if she was shedding, otherwise she never got smelly or anything. She was all indoors. Cats clean themselves quite well usually.

BTW, she didn't like Frontline very much, got kinda moody about it, but nothing like trying to bathe a cat. Screw that.

[MNeedham73]

Leon just did it wrong, that's all :lol:

How To Bath Your Cat


Thoroughly clean your toilet.
Add the required amount of shampoo in the toilet and have both lids lifted.
Obtain the cat and soothe him while you carry him toward the bathroom. In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and close the lids (you may need to stand on the lid so that he can not escape).
CAUTION: Do not get any part of your body to close to the edge, as his paws will be reaching out for any purchase they can find.
Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a "power wash and rinse" which I have found to be quite effective.
Have someone open the door to the outside and ensure that there are no people between the toilet and the outside door.
Stand behind the toilet as far as you can and quickly lift both lids. The now clean cat will rocket out of the toilet and run outside where he will dry himself.

[Allene]

Yeah, that's what we did with our cat, Frontline and brush if she was shedding, otherwise she never got smelly or anything. She was all indoors. Cats clean themselves quite well usually.

BTW, she didn't like Frontline very much, got kinda moody about it, but nothing like trying to bathe a cat. Screw that.

We have to brush too. The vet says he's an American shorthair, but somewhere in his family tree lurks a fluffy feline. His coat is just a smidge too luxuriant for an American shorthair. If we don't brush him, then we get a face full of fur when we pet him.

I have never needed to use Frontline on our cat, which is just as well. He thinks we need to ask him for permission for everything we do. If we don't, he expresses his displeasure by flicking one of his paws. If he thinks it's really beyond the pale, he turns his back on us and flicks one hind leg and then the other.

You bet cats are good at cleaning themselves. The only place they can't reach is the back of their neck. Our cat spends an inordinate amount of his waking time grooming himself. Speaking of waking time, I read somewhere that by the time your cat is nine years old he has only been awake for three years. :)

[MNeedham73]

Speaking of waking time, I read somewhere that by the time your cat is nine years old he has only been awake for three years. :)

*looks at his 3 cats laid out everywhere, asleep*

I can believe it :haha: